[census] unmarrieds now outnumber marrieds

The American Community Survey, released this month by the Census Bureau, found that 49.7 percent, or 55.2 million, of the nation’s 111.1 million households in 2005 were made up of married couples, down from more than 52 percent five years earlier. The point has finally been reached which would have been unthinkable a generation ago and so, what to make of it? Be appalled? Yawn? Nod approvingly?